by Hernán Rivera Letelier · DEBOLS!LLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9789563252392
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«Fatamorgana de amor con banda de música» is the novel by Hernán Rivera Letelier, published by Debolsillo in paperback (274 pages, in Spanish).
In Pampa Unión, a desert town, Bello Sandalio, a bohemian trumpeter, and Golondrina del Rosario, a pianist, live a love story. While the town prepares the tribute to dictator Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, the anarchist barber Sixto Pastor Alzamora, Golondrina's father, hides an explosive surprise in his bass drum.
Originally published in 1998, this edition is from 2016; the work won the San Clemente Prize in 2001.
Novel suitable for readers who enjoy love stories with a historical backdrop and music as a guiding thread.
Hernán Rivera Letelier is a Chilean novelist. Until the age of 11 he lived in the Algorta saltpeter mining town, in the north of Chile. When it was closed down, he and his family moved to Antofagasta, where his mother died. His siblings went to live with his aunts. He stayed in Antofagasta, alone, until he was about 11. To survive, he sold newspapers. Later he worked as a messenger for Anglo Lautaro Nirate Company, until his thirst for adventure led him to spend three years traveling in Chile, Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador and Argentina. He returned to Antofagasta in 1973 and began to work at another company, Mantos Blancos. He married a 17-year-old girl when he was 24. Later he left for Pedro de Valdivia, another saltpeter mining town. He completed his seventh and eighth years of study at night school, and at the Inacap educational institute he earned his license as a secondary education instructor. Today he lives in Antofagasta with his wife and four children. He has received the Premio Consejo Nacional de Libro twice, in 1994 and 1996. His novel El arte de la resurrección won the Premio Alfaguara de Novela in Spain in 2010.
